God, I cannot believe what used to go for almost twenty bucks now can be picked up for fifty cents. For me, this is the most iconic Mirage card.
Pontiac
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Cost to play 4 mana
cost to activate 2 mana and sacrifice
seeing the look on thier face when your playing your opponents Time Walk or Ancestral Recall, Priceless
tavaritz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Praetor's Grasp is cheaper, has no time limit on casting the spell and doesn't warn beforehand.
Toquinha1977
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@tavaritz: true on all counts, but the fact that it's an artifact makes it available to all deck colours. Praetor's Grasp has 2 black in it, ensuring that you have to be playing mono black or a bunch of multi-lands.
@Bluecash: Seconded. I cracked 2 of these and remember them being one of the most powerful cards in Mirage, along with Celestial Dawn. Both can be bought in bulk now.
The_Murderauder
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I use it with Eon Hub, so there's no time limit on playing their cards. I also run Naked Singularity to ensure that they can't cast their own spells. Plus Darksteel Ingot or something similar, so that I can cast what I pull regardless of color.
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cost to activate 2 mana and sacrifice
seeing the look on thier face when your playing your opponents Time Walk or Ancestral Recall, Priceless
@Bluecash: Seconded. I cracked 2 of these and remember them being one of the most powerful cards in Mirage, along with Celestial Dawn. Both can be bought in bulk now.
I recur the whole thing with Academy Ruins.
The Hub also means that Delay and Ertai's Meddling are hard counters.
Mostly what I fetch are the cards they might use to disrupt my combos, but eventually I start getting their wincons.
Works surprisingly well.